Author: Muse Le Secq des Tournelles Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486220826 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 431
Book Description
More than 4,500 objects on 415 plates illustrate a remarkable variety of decorative ironwork from Roman times to the 19th century. Drawn from a rare 1924 source by a noted scholar and collector, it runs the gamut from door knockers and grilles to jewelry and religious symbols.
Author: Dona Z. Meilach Publisher: Schiffer Craft ISBN: 9780764307904 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
All the fascinating properties of iron and other metals can be creatively explored with 52 color plates and 717 b/w photos and drawings and detailed text. The author discusses the ironworking shop, forge and tools, including anvils, vises, hammers, tongs, punches, centrifugal blowers and machine tools. Forging procedures are explicitly shown.
Author: Margarete Baur-Heinhold Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited ISBN: 9780764301537 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 176
Book Description
Artists have made gates and fences in wrought iron over the centuries in ornamental designs shown here in hundreds of photos. The restoration of wrought iron is discussed and ironwork examples are organized according to their uses, such as gratings that protect doors and windows, entries and gates from Europe in the Middle Ages, artistic creations of the 17th and 18th centuries, and works of our own day.
Author: Denonvilliers Co. Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486155781 Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 92
Book Description
Invaluable source of information for art historians, craftspeople, dealers, collectors, and preservationists includes hundreds of finely detailed illustrations of garden seats, candelabras, moldings, gates, balcony grilles, vases, crosses, funerary ornaments and monuments, finials, doorknobs and many other ornamental features. A rich source of inspiration and royalty-free graphics, as well, for commercial artists and designers.
Author: Otto Hoever Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486138305 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 676
Book Description
Over 450 black-and-white photos, royalty-free, show great ironwork from all over Europe — doors, gates, railings, grilles, lanterns, candelabra, firedogs, chandeliers, much more.
Author: Thomas F. Googerty Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486443469 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 82
Book Description
Originally published: Decorative wrought iron work, working drawings and working notes on the making of simple, useful articles from wrought iron, brass and copper. Peoria, Ill.: Manual Arts Press, 1937.
Author: Louis Blanc Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486135780 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 97
Book Description
Over 1,500 attractive black-and-white illustrations — drawn from balconies, gates, grilles, stair railings, and elsewhere — incorporate floral and foliate designs, human and animal figures, musical motifs, heraldic crests, mythological figures, geometrics, more.
Author: The Countryside Agency Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing ISBN: 1607657295 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 126
Book Description
In succession with Blacksmith’s Craft and Wrought Ironwork, Decorative Ironwork is a facsimile edition of the original 1963 instruction manual for intermediate to advanced blacksmiths. Apply all previous techniques learned to forge and form the designs of 7 decorative iron grilles through detailed, step-by-step instruction and photography. Once completed and mastered, this book will arm you with vital skills that are applicable to the entire field of decorative ironwork.
Author: Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486292606 Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 92
Book Description
Artists, illustrators, architectural and art historians, restorers, dealers, collectors--anyone interested in historical ironwork--will welcome this magnificent treasury of decorative designs produced between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries. Over 400 illustrations on 86 plates, reprinted from a rare nineteenth-century French volume of copperplate engravings, reveal a remarkable variety of decorative and utilitarian objects. Focusing primarily on German Gothic ironwork designs that embellished palaces, cathedrals, castles, houses, and other structures, the plates depict hinges ornamented with mythical sea creatures and dragons, door knockers decorated with female figures and human heads, keyhole plates wreathed in foliage, chests reinforced with iron bands displaying elaborate artwork, intricately laced metalwork on screens and grilles, elaborately designed keys, finials, candle stands, and a host of other architectural and ornamental elements. Notes to the plates identify the objects and provide, when available, a source and date for each. A splendid record of the inspired decorative flourishes of the past, these beautifully detailed plates will also serve as a lavish source of inspiration for today's designers. Dover (1996) republication of the plates from "Serrurerie, ou les Ouvrages en Fer Forgedu Moyen-Age et de la Renaissance, " published by Librairie Tross, Paris, 1870.
Author: Augusto Pedrini Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486149919 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 130
Book Description
This magnificently illustrated volume showcases elegant examples of ironwork designs by five centuries of Italian masters. Spanning the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries, the collection encompasses both simple and elaborate ornaments for doors, windows, gates, balcony and staircase railings, and other architectural features. A remarkable variety of motifs are depicted--from gracefully executed florals and foliated elements, to exquisite swirls and curls, and striking portrayals of mythical beasts. A dazzling treasury of ornamental ironwork, this archive of royalty-free motifs will delight lovers of antiques, commercial artists, and anyone intrigued by decorative flourishes from the past.
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Author: Muse Le Secq des Tournelles
Author: Dona Z. Meilach
Author: Margarete Baur-Heinhold
Author: Denonvilliers Co.
Author: Otto Hoever
Author: Thomas F. Googerty
Author: Louis Blanc
Author: The Countryside Agency
Author: Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck
Author: Augusto Pedrini